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Biographer Kaplan marks these travels not with a chronological posting of names and facts but with an imaginative and supplely written account that keeps bending back toward Leaves of Grass. This was the course of Whitman's own life. Youth and young manhood fed the first edition in 1855. The poem cycle became an organic reflection of its author as he journeyed through the. South, the Great Lakes, the Hudson Valley, to Washington, where he cared for the Civil War's wounded and dying, and finally to Camden, N.J., where he erected a roughhewn burial vault to house...
Spring's Awakening, which Wedekind subtitled "A Tragedy of Childhood," concerns the sexual awakening of adolescence, "the first stirrings of manhood," the unleashing of the dogs of sex. The protagonists--Melchior, Moritz, Wendla, and Ilse--feel these stirrings, and are confused by them, and find no direction from a daft and hypocritical matriarchy. Left to fend for themselves in the erotic floodtide, some swim, others drown. This, for Wedekind, is the central point; the sexual impulse is merely a force, and as a force has no moral content; it should be recognized as such, and neither hidden nor judged...
...just as oppressive as being told they could not take care of their families," she says. As a consequence, Black men "were doomed to protest in the way in which they had been programmed. The most immediately gratifying way young Black men of the '60s could assert their manhood was by having a White woman or oppressing Black women...
...mother Rose, Joan Copeland is a fountain of humor, a river of love, and a rock of survival, despite occasional attacks of frayed nerves. Perhaps Miller's real time machine is memory and its curving flight into the distant past of one's fledgling manhood...
...heart of this weird scene stands a mechanical bull that bucks and cork screws in a very good approximation of a real rodeo bull. Riding it, the urban cow boy literally risks his manhood and, of course, gains the admiring attention of the urban cowgirls. Some of them also try their luck on this contraption and this threatens the males...